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PayPalUnfortunately the stock availability of the Steam Deck has only worsened recently, with the EU now appearing to be completely out of stock. That's on top of it still being out of stock in the USA and Canada as I previously reported.
Currently for Japan, Komodo estimate stock for the OLED model to be available in "Late-Feb". But South Korea, Hong-Kong and Taiwan do still have the OLED in stock. While the LCD model is out of stock entirely across Asia now.
Checking across multiple EU countries today, all three models are out of stock:
As confirmed by Valve previously with a message on the Steam Deck page, the Steam Deck OLED issue is due to "memory and storage shortages" and the Steam Deck LCD is no longer in production so that model will not return at all. Valve did say stock would be intermittent due to the problems, so they may appear here and there in some regions.
Hopefully this situation won't last too long, as the most popular PC handheld it would be a shame for the AI boom to ruin the future of Valve's hardware with it also affecting the launch of the Steam Frame and Steam Machine.
In the UK though, all three models are still currently in stock.
Update: the article original noted both models were out out stock across all of Asia, it was amended as that's just for Japan. Also made it clearer it's the EU.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Sadly the producers of RAM and GPUs did not ramp up their production early enough. It should have been forsteeable for them, that the demand will rise fast.
But I guess, it is more safe to just wait and raise the prices, instead of investing in production machines in advance.
soulsource 3 hours ago
Quoting: jatinThe reason why RAM has become four times more expensive is that a huge amount of RAM that has not yet been produced was purchased with non-existent money to be installed in GPUs that also have not yet been produced, in order to place them in data centers that have not yet been built, powered by infrastructure that may never appear, to satisfy demand that does not actually exist and to obtain profit that is mathematically impossible.
hardpenguin 2 hours ago
Liam Dawe 2 hours ago
Last edited by Liam Dawe on 20 Feb 2026 at 12:05 pm UTC
Quoting: hardpenguinIf you are not hating on AI yet, you have a good reason to start now.I don't hate "AI" as a tech. Machine learning/neural networks have had very good applications for decades since it is very effective in certain tasks. What I hate is the LLM/GenAI fueled hype machine that is created as a smokescreen over unrealistic promises of future potential. An attempt to try to bind as many people as they can before the house of cards collapses. Luckily this hard push is causing serious quality issues, which at least turns a significant portion of the public against it even beyond those wanting a new GPU or extra RAM.
hardpenguin 58 minutes ago
Quoting: EhvisI don't hate "AI" as a tech. Machine learning/neural networks have had very good applications for decades since it is very effective in certain tasks. What I hate is the LLM/GenAI fueled hype machine that is created as a smokescreen over unrealistic promises of future potential. An attempt to try to bind as many people as they can before the house of cards collapses.Nitpicking but yes. Obviously ML can be pretty great.
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